Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:24:45 -0300 (EST) From: Luiz de Barros <luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br> To: "Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange)" <a-scotov@exchange.microsoft.com> Cc: "'Freebsd-ISP@freebsd.org'" <Freebsd-ISP@freebsd.org>, "'FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org'" <FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Comtrol Rocketports. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429152355.2077A-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Microsoft%l=DABONE-960429175142Z-3932@yuri.microsoft.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange) wrote: Hi, I think Cyclades products are good. I use one cyclom in Linux and FreeBSD with no problem. Cheers, Luiz > i know this doesn't help you with your comtrol products but cyclades > seems very committed to supporting free operating systems. their > products have worked well for me as well. there is cyclades support in > 2.1.0-release. > > >---------- > >From: luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br[SMTP:luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br] > >Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 1980 12:23 PM > >To: Freebsd-ISP@freebsd.org; FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org > >Subject: Comtrol Rocketports. > > > >I have two Comtrol Rocketports running on my ISP on a Linux machine. > >Our Services Server ( news,mail,www,etc ) is FreeBSD. > >I am tired of having to re-configure, recompile, reboot the Linux > >because of crashes, locks, kernel panics, etc. > >One month ago the system was locking up the serial ports almost once a > >day. > > > >FreeBSD looked for me as a very very much stabler system than linux. > >I can't understand how comtrol did not made a driver for Rocketport > >under > >FreeBSD. I have talked to a guy from comtrol and he said that they do > >not > >have plans on supporting another Free operating system, as their > >experience > >with linux was a disaster. ( They did one for BSDi and i think it would > >be > >very easy to port it to FreeBSD ) > > > >Anyone already did a driver for this board for FreeBSD? > >How about all of we concerned about this problem make a flood of > >messages > >to the comtrol guys? Maybe we can convince they on making the driver > >for > >such a good System like FreeBSD? > > > >Regards, > >Luiz de Barros Oliveira Neto > >Netlink Internet Services. > > > > >
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